283 pages : 31 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-264), index, and list of communities

pt. I. The History of Lithuania from the Late Thirteenth to the Late Twentieth Centuries -- From the Thirteenth Century to the First Partition of Poland (1772) -- Under Tsarist Rule (1772-1915) -- During World War I -- The Inter-war Years (Independent Lithuania) -- World War II -- The Postwar Years -- pt. II. The Jews of Lithuania from the Middle Ages to the End of World War I -- The Jewish Community of Lithuania from Its Earliest Days to the Union with Poland (1569) -- The Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1569-1795) -- Under Tsarist Rule in the Russian "Pale of Settlement" (1795-1914) -- During World War I (1914-1918) -- pt. III. The Jews in Independent Lithuania During the Inter-war Years -- Civil and Political Status -- From Zenith to Nadir -- Demography and Statistics -- The Economic and Social Activity of the Jews -- Education and Culture -- Political Activity on the "Jewish Street" -- The Zionist Camp -- The Religious Ultra-Orthodox Camp -- The Folkist-Communist Camp -- pt. IV. World War II, the Holocaust, and the Jewish Survivors -- The Outbreak of War and the Ensuing Radical Changes in Jewish Life -- Under Soviet Rule (1940-1941) -- Refugees, Soliders, and Exiles in the Soviet Interior -- Under Nazi Occupation: The Destruction of Lithuanian Jewry (1941-1945) -- The Survivors -- Epilogue / Yehoshua Trigor -- The Jewish Communities and Localities in Inter-war Lithuania -- Names of Jewish communities that were part of Lithuania in other periods

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